Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 65
The pigeons live in the tower, the turkeys in the first floor, but old Elsie rules in the ground floor.
Who acts: pigeons · What happens: live · To what, where: old Elsie rules, tower
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigeons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pigeons | det |
| 2 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 tower | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tower | det |
| 6 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turkeys | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 turkeys | det |
| 9 | turkeys | turkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tower | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 floor | amod |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turkeys | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rules | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 rules | cc |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rules | amod |
| 17 | Elsie | Elsie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 rules | compound |
| 18 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 floor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 floor | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 floor | compound |
| 22 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rules | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the pigeons | old Elsie rules in the ground floor | the tower | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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